[Python-Dev] Support for async read/write

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz
<glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> I'd like to echo this sentiment.  This is not about providing a 'safe'
> wrapper to hide some powerful feature of these APIs: the POSIX aio_*
> functions are really completely useless.
> To quote the relevant standard
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/aio.h.html>:
>
> APPLICATION USAGE
> None.
> RATIONALE
> None.
> FUTURE DIRECTIONS
> None.


No comment on the rest of your claim, but this is a silly argument.
The standard says the same thing about at least fcntl.h, signal.h,
pthread.h, and ucontext.h, which clearly are useful.

Jeffrey